Find a handmade wooden gift worth keeping
A handmade wooden gift is the kind of thing people keep. Every piece here is built one at a time in Virden, Manitoba — hardwood milled, glued, planed and finished by one pair of hands, and no two are ever quite alike. Whether you are marking a wedding, a new house or a retirement, this is the short way to find the right one.
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Choose a handmade wooden gift by occasion
Wedding & anniversary. A board they will still be using in thirty years. If you want a name or a date on it, a custom board is engraved to order — you confirm the details before anything is cut.
Housewarming. A first proper cutting board gets noticed every single day. Start with the everyday cutting boards, or a charcuterie board for the table.
Retirement & milestones. For a send-off that should feel like an heirloom, look at the statement pieces — end-grain butcher blocks and one-of-one game boards.
Games night & grandparents. Cribbage and chess boards from the Game Room, ready to play as soon as the box is open.
The home bar. Whiskey smokers, flight boards and wine racks live in Home Bar — for the person who owns everything except this.
Shopping for a man in particular
If you would rather sort by who it is for than by the occasion, the woodworking gifts for men guide runs through the game-room, home-bar and kitchen pieces that land best, with a note on engraving and what arrives in the box.
Shop gifts by price
Because sometimes the budget comes first, and that is a perfectly good place to start.
Gifts under $150 — conditioner, bar boards, cribbage and the smaller cutting boards.
Gifts $150 to $300 — full-size edge-grain boards and a custom board of your own.
Statement gifts, $300 and up — end-grain butcher blocks and one-of-one heirloom boards.
When you would rather let them choose
Not every handmade wooden gift should be a guess. A gift card works on anything in the shop — including a custom board, so they can pick the wood and the engraving themselves.